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bombcar
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bombcar replied to pagicence's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale ModelingVery nice - in race mode the front reminds me of the HEMTT. -
I like the color variation, and the detailing on the front. Is the SB-13C a drone?
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bombcar replied to Hanso's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale ModelingI really like the use of the inherent flexibility of LEGO connections to get that supple curve.
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bombcar replied to MegaRoi's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale ModelingReally impressive review - above and beyond the call of duty. The battery usage is really the thing that gets me down - with the proliferation of USB charging, a rechargeable pack with a USB connector would cost a bit more but be the way to go.
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I might suggest 7 stud - it's a bit trickier to build (can't use standard train plates) but allows for more detail than 6 wide without the size of 8. Really depends on if you're building to display or building to run, in my opinion. The colors in that picture seem to make the cars look green to me, which would be green/white. I agree a steam locomotive will look better - but perhaps a modern locomotive would be a starting point?
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That brings up a note - the huge desire I have to go to Eurobricks is driven by the themes I DON’T follow - because I’ll know all about the latest train sets, etc, but Ninjago doesn’t interest me - but I still want to see reviews of parts, etc.
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I have a 13,000 pound M35A2 in the driveway. It’s likely I have a similar amount (definitely by volume, maybe weight) of LEGO. Anyone who knows us knows we have LEGO. I just tell them I sold a Robbie house for $400 and they seem to understand (but they don’t, not really).
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Photobucket going paid killed many of the old threads, perhaps someone should archive what we have? Does the wayback machine work for old reviews that got photobucketed? I forsee a new dot-com crash on the horizon; companies like Flickr and Imgur can only go so long hosting pictures for free for other sites (like reddit, EB, etc).
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A built LEGO set that is subject to temperature fluctuations will "unbuild" itself slowly - the pieces will start to disconnect. However having actual pieces break is very rare (though I do know the original Star Destroyer would deform pieces if left on its own over time). If the plastic is becoming brittle that's very strange - not much reacts with ABS (though it can be damaged by sunlight, that usually just results in yellowing). Were the sets stored built in direct sunlight? Do you have some pictures?
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12 - 2 points 9 - 1 point great entries all!
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As a side note - the "forum" style of communication is dying everywhere. I'm not sure what's really killed it, but places I used to post (such as https://arstechnica.com/civis/ where I have 29k+ posts) feel similar. For example, they both have some long-running multi-thousand post threads, and many posts with 2-3 or fewer responses, large numbers of "old-timers" and little "new-blood". I think a big part of it is that in the "old days" you basically had to go to a forum for many things - now there are sources for various things easier found via Google than by posting on a forum. Reddit and Facebook together cover much of what forums used to do (but I hate them both). I don't know if there really are solutions, perhaps beyond reconsidering some of the rules that no longer apply (bumping old threads is annoying in an active forum, but in a graveyard perhaps it's the only life left?). I note that the reviews here (for example) http://heartlaketimes.blogspot.com/ seem eerily similar to Reviewer's Academy reviews. Perhaps the content has migrated away. Maybe the domain name itself scares some non-Europhiles away? Perhaps unlikely, but it might be something. At least it's not as dead as Lugnet (these have a very Wally-esque feeling: https://news.lugnet.com/admin/statistics/?n=19764).
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Upload your collection to Bricklink - and price it as you go - then you'll have a rough dollar amount for what it's worth (use the price guide to find what MISB sets are going for). If it's not much, just continue to do whatever you want. If it's a ton, sell them all, probably in one huge lot to a comic enthusiast. Or give them to me!
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bombcar replied to eric trax's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale ModelingPhenomenal! Link for those too lazy to cut and paste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAsI2L8AUgc&t=
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My 2¢ - the "sticky" threads detailing reviews, etc, are all very stale and unmaintained. It is really hard to find, for example, reviews of Friends sets after 2014. Perhaps those threads could be updated or changed into a wiki-type format that could be more easily edited? Links like the set review index: https://www.eurobricks.com/sieg/dex/ don't work, for example. And I know some of the older reviews are killed by Photobucket dying, but it would be nice (for me at least, and I'm almost certainly the most important person here! ) to be able to find that content again. For example; there is no list of Reviewer's Academy reviews that I can find. I love reading them, but I have to manually poke around to discover new ones.
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Note that a clearance is technically different from an adjustment of sale price - clearance means it's not going to be stocked anymore, a sale just means it's cheaper for awhile (for example, Walmart has 60052 on Rollback right now to $144, but not on clearance (yet)). The main difference for those watching at home is that stores will often price-match sale prices but rarely will price-match clearance prices (and clearances are where the really great deals can be found).
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Amazon, Target, and Walmart fight to keep their prices identical online - once it goes on sale at one place, it’ll be matched by the others. When that will be I don’t know - perhaps early summer?
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bombcar replied to Bublehead's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale ModelingI think for many people a MOC is finished when the next one starts (because that becomes the new main object) - and as @Leonardo da Bricki said, once you need the pieces, well, as they say, Take a picture, it lasts longer! Of course, if you're building into a diorama, it's never finished unless you use the Kragle ....
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I remember the old sets used to have alternate models (no instructions) on the back of the box - I suspect that they don't do this anymore because people complained about no instructions, but this brings it all back. Half the excitement of a new set was seeing what you could do with the bricks.
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Bricklink shows 44 but that might not cover some brick-built ones or ones using other parts.
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Another reason (obvious in the Creator 3-in-1 sets) is that sometimes the pieces are used in alternative models. And sometimes that applies even if they only release instructions for one model. And sometimes two sets are designed to work together, and that dictates parts choice, too.
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bombcar replied to Siegfried's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale ModelingNice! I really enjoyed the previous books, so I'm willing to say "Technic for teh win" to try to get another one, even though I rarely build Technic.
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